Archive for the ‘Mac’ Category
Apple Wireless Bluetooth Keyboard eating batteries.
I have started to notice that my keyboard is now going dead every few days. I don’t really worry too much about it since I have a bunch of rechargeable batteries always on the ready, but today I did some investigation and found the following Apple Discussion where others are experiencing the same issue. [...]
Battery Life
Tonight I decided to watch a video on my iPhone. I happened to take the iPhone off the charger so that I would have a fresh charge. After the movie was over, I happened to notice that the iPhone had 92% charge left! That was 1:40 mintues of video and it only [...]
Apple Tablet?
I have read all the rumors about the Apple tablet device that *may* or *may not* be on the horizon. I am a bit skeptical that it would succeed. You may ask, “James.. What would you know about tablets?”. I may know something There was a time, circa [...]
I Finally have a smart phone!
That’s right, I finally have a smart phone. I have been waiting a long time Remember back in July of 2007, the iPhone shipped? Well, back then I was deciding on whether to get a smart phone, or just get a new phone. I spent some time playing with [...]
Penryn in da House!
If you have been following along with my consolidation project, you know that so far, I bought a Mac Mini, and ended up returning it. When I returned it, I technically exchanged it for a new 20″ iMac. At the time, I got a 2.0 GHz Merom cpu with 1GB of ram and [...]
Not so fast!
My last post mentioned a new Mac Mini was in the house. No longer! That’s right, it is comfortably back at the Apple store. It is no longer welcome here.
A Poor Experience
I am the proud owner of a G4 Mac Mini 1.42 GHz. The goal was to replace it with an [...]
Another one…
Tonight I bought another Mac Mini. I have a G4 1.42 Mac Mini that is excellent. However, a new project has begun. I want to take my windows server and migrate it to a VM and run it on the mini. I have both Parallels and Fusion, but I think I [...]
Wordpress Upgraded to 2.5
I upgraded it today. I was pretty far behind on updates.
Apple MacBook Pro firmware update.
I just downloaded the latest firmware for the MacBook Pro and it seems to have fixed some of my problems. I was experiencing problems with the MacBook Pro sometimes not waking from sleep. That all seems to be gone now for the first couple of days with the new firmware. It may [...]
An interesting day in Apple Land…
Today Apple announced a new round of iPods. Are they cool? Yes. Are they worthy of buying? Yes. Are they innovative? Sure. Are they cheaper? To some degree yes. That seems to have angered some otherwie happy iPod owners. Mainly users of the iPhone. Apple [...]